LAKEHURST, N.J. - History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster.

No, not that one.

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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio, had been awarded a Navy contract in 1928 to build the Akron and a second rigid airship, the Macon. Construction of the Akron by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. was completed in 1931.